View online or download great planes waco ymf5 instruction manual. The aircraft was originally designed and produced by the waco aircraft company of ohio in the 1930s. Waco aircraft at historic waco field, in troy, ohio. In order to bring the 50yearold design back to life, classic aircraft hired industry experts who made more than 300 engineering changes to modernize the waco with current material and construction techniques, while maintaining the vintage look and flying. Waco aircraft corp the ultimate sense of adventure. Designed to use stock off the shelf flying hardware for easy affordable flight. Fifty years after the company ceased trading this variant was brought back into production using the original aircraft plans. Completely rewritten to conform to new faa regulations. These biplanes are produced by hand based on original techniques from the 1920s and 1930s. I know the plane tends to climb at over 12 throttle. Great planes waco ymf5 instruction manual pdf download. Faa approved airplane flight manual waco classic aircraft model ymf.
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Great planes classic waco ymf 5 electrified after searching the two big sites, rcgroups and rcunivers for a good build log on this new plane, and coming up empty, i decided to start one here. Production of the ymf5 was resumed in 1986 and continues on a perorder basis as of this writing. With a wingspan of 72 inches, this model comes in at exactly 1 5 scale. And a small firm in troy, ohio the waco aircraft company, designed and manufactured a beautiful biplane named the ymf 5. For the latest technical updates or manual corrections to the waco ymf 5 arf visit the great planes web site at. The ymf 5 is the same base model as the umf but with greater fuselage, vertical fin, and horsepower. If there is new technical information or changes to this model a tech notice box will appear in the upper left corner of the page. Do you have a question about the eflite umx waco or do you need help. Manuals and user guides for great planes waco ymf5. Im going electric, and the only thing i could find was one picture of one showing the location of a hatch for battery access. Phoenix model waco f5c instruction manual pdf download. This plan of the semiscale sportscale waco pg2 was designed by peter miller is a twinengine sports scale powered glider with the wingspan is 62 34 inches, a wing area of 500 square inches, 3 or 4 channel radio system and are ready to fly weight of 40 ounces 2 lbs.
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